Green types who want to cripple our lifestyle and economy in the name of reducing CO2 emissions will have to convincingly win an election with a clear mandate to do so.
Explain why life was so good in Reagan's America, then.
Your argument only makes sense in a left-wing context. Anyone who actually had to live and grow up in those times knows the sharp differential between Jimmy Carter and Reagan.
The whining about sexual orientation slurs mostly shows the lack of comfort of the offend-ee with the sexual orientation in question. It's you that have the problem with being gay, not the person talking.
Real gay people do not need to be babied. They are conscious they are different, and anything in life that is different about you is ridiculed.
The new interface of/. is still less usable than the previous iteration(s). It was one reason why a significant blogging community fractured and departed a few years back, along with reliability issues and the easily abused moderation system.
This entire thread seems to be just an excuse for developers to pay no attention to usability issues. As usual.
I was mostly entertaining the thought. The truth is that in VoIP, RTP and RTCP are UDP-based and connectionless. There is no retransmission anyway. Either your link is solid or it isn't. Anything above about 3% packet loss will result in essentially unusable comms anyway. That is even very liberal.
You're right that there are no windows, as there is no retransmission.
"Somebody's talking" is information that it'll be hard to conceal without the measures you cite. I'd be ok with that, generally. Having 60% of what I say easily ferreted out is not ok, however.
The reason why is that any serious encryption attempt of IP traffic would make all packets a constant size, significantly below expected MTU size (taking into account tunnels). This attack would not exist in that scenario. They are measuring the payload size of IP packets and matching it to phonemes spoken.
I probably shouldn't blame them for this, but it's barely worth the effort of encrypting the traffic if it is this easy to sniff out the words being spoken.
Even the government has cut way back on Sun purchases, in some areas. For instance, Sun was the only vendor for a certain server stack (made up of x4100 M1/M2 and x4600 servers) that the Army uses heavily in deployed or deployable units. There are hundreds of these stacks out there, created from 05 to about a year ago. They dropped Sun as a hardware source effective about a year ago. Oracle policies, mostly, had to do with this. Switched to Dell. That one contract alone was worth quite a bit.
1) The spinal cord is not simply a transmission mechanism. Primarily, it controls the operation of the lower extremities.
2) The spinal cord requires a minimal 'data feed' to operate - over the spinal cord itself.
To me, this explains much about paralysis and ultimately, how to conquer it. It is interesting that I had never had the idea of the spinal cord being just the 'copper' linking your extremities to your brain corrected at any point in the past.
I also know someone with spina bifida who would benefit from this, if it were possible. Of course, reading about the physical condition and special circumstances of the research volunteer (having feeling below the injury) suggests that this may not be possible.
It's not as bad as you are thinking - considering the lifespan of petrol engines, a 10 year nearly full replacement cycle would solve the problem neatly. Nearly everything larger than a SUV in the US is diesel anyway, already. Besides, it offers new markets for engine block heaters for the parts of the US that freeze regularly.
Incidentally, that last one is the main reason you don't see more diesel passenger vehicles in the US, currently. The sight of Mercedes owners searching for power outlets to keep their vehicles reasonably mobile at work in colder climes is a deterrent to purchasing a diesel yourself.
No one really believes we won't run out. Some of us just don't care much. When commodities run out, they subsidize their replacements via outrageous cost. Besides, the momentum is unstoppable, anyway. Usually, we learn not to tilt at windmills.
What you're really calling for is to artificially decrease demand for oil, which isn't going to happen in a sane world. Any attempt to do so will simply create a gray or black market in oil to those who refuse to cooperate with the regimen. Those who produce will be all too willing to sell, and those who consume will be all too willing to continue, while paying lip service to the goal. It likely would even increase demand for oil until it is all gone. Then the solution summarized in the previous paragraph will happen in any event.
About the only way to subvert the whole process before oil runs out would be to create a renewable organic fuel with limited negatives vis a vis fossilized plant matter. Something that burns in current engines with limited modification. Arrange for it to be cheaper than extraction of said fossilized plant matter. That would work, but it's a tall order. However, if one wanted to 'save the earth' to the extent that CO2 is a danger, that seems to be the most promising path.
As for why organic - the economic dislocation of changing every ICE in the world over to something else would eliminate any cost advantage in the fuel in any reasonable time frame. That's why hydrogen always sounded like a nonstarter to me. It depended on too many immature or nonexistent technologies to prosper.
I'm suggesting that any certification or data point about people can (and probably will) act as a comfort zone whereby further effort is discouraged. It's human nature. This is why union employee service sucks and government employees don't give a shit. They believe they cannot be fired.
The M16A2/A4 and M4 carbine (shorter version), which covers all of the standard rifles issued to US armed forces since about 1982, do not have an automatic fire mode. They fire a maximum of a three round burst. By that definition, they aren't assault rifles.
Past history, track record, yadda yadda. Microsoft has done little (read: nothing) to regain credibility after their past transgressions. They've crushed software innovation for the last 25 years in the interest of their bottom line, using both legal and illegal methods.
They don't get the benefit of the doubt for a reason.
Florian's just a paid shill. who cares what he has to say? Hell, the people he listed are all paid shills. If you can't determine who is paid to feed you company propaganda and who is not, the battle is lost with you anyway.
If someone had told me in 1994 that Microsoft was responsible for the destruction of productive new technologies to preserve their bottom line, I wouldn't have believed them and would have disbelieved everything and anything they said afterward. There was tons of data out there already documenting just this. I just hadn't seen it and didn't want to search it out. They were crushing IBM, then the heart and soul of closed, high cost computing. Why try to think badly of them?
Nowadays, the scales are off the eyes of those who are paying attention. You still have to care, though. Same with Apple and Google et al.
Florian and the lawyer pointing this out are Microsoft paid shills. They are attempting to sell WP7. This makes whatever point they were making pretty much irrelevant. If it was a big issue, the kernel devs would be making noise, not these whores.
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The government is working as designed.
Green types who want to cripple our lifestyle and economy in the name of reducing CO2 emissions will have to convincingly win an election with a clear mandate to do so.
It isn't happening anytime soon.
Explain why life was so good in Reagan's America, then.
Your argument only makes sense in a left-wing context. Anyone who actually had to live and grow up in those times knows the sharp differential between Jimmy Carter and Reagan.
Amen to this. This site seriously blows nowadays.
Pretty much, yes. The overemphasis on the word is a sign of discomfort with your own race.
Don't be gay.
The whining about sexual orientation slurs mostly shows the lack of comfort of the offend-ee with the sexual orientation in question. It's you that have the problem with being gay, not the person talking.
Real gay people do not need to be babied. They are conscious they are different, and anything in life that is different about you is ridiculed.
The new interface of /. is still less usable than the previous iteration(s). It was one reason why a significant blogging community fractured and departed a few years back, along with reliability issues and the easily abused moderation system.
This entire thread seems to be just an excuse for developers to pay no attention to usability issues. As usual.
I think the Osbourne effect must have something to do with your system biting the heads off bats and mumbling incoherently.
The Osborne effect is probably what you meant.
This didn't fix the problem unless they are padding packets now. The fix doesn't seem to cover that.
Are you sure it isn't modem connect tones?
I was mostly entertaining the thought. The truth is that in VoIP, RTP and RTCP are UDP-based and connectionless. There is no retransmission anyway. Either your link is solid or it isn't. Anything above about 3% packet loss will result in essentially unusable comms anyway. That is even very liberal.
You're right that there are no windows, as there is no retransmission.
"Somebody's talking" is information that it'll be hard to conceal without the measures you cite. I'd be ok with that, generally. Having 60% of what I say easily ferreted out is not ok, however.
Yeah, more difficult but not impossible. You just need a larger window and more buffers.
The reason why is that any serious encryption attempt of IP traffic would make all packets a constant size, significantly below expected MTU size (taking into account tunnels). This attack would not exist in that scenario. They are measuring the payload size of IP packets and matching it to phonemes spoken.
I probably shouldn't blame them for this, but it's barely worth the effort of encrypting the traffic if it is this easy to sniff out the words being spoken.
Even the government has cut way back on Sun purchases, in some areas. For instance, Sun was the only vendor for a certain server stack (made up of x4100 M1/M2 and x4600 servers) that the Army uses heavily in deployed or deployable units. There are hundreds of these stacks out there, created from 05 to about a year ago. They dropped Sun as a hardware source effective about a year ago. Oracle policies, mostly, had to do with this. Switched to Dell. That one contract alone was worth quite a bit.
1) The spinal cord is not simply a transmission mechanism. Primarily, it controls the operation of the lower extremities.
2) The spinal cord requires a minimal 'data feed' to operate - over the spinal cord itself.
To me, this explains much about paralysis and ultimately, how to conquer it. It is interesting that I had never had the idea of the spinal cord being just the 'copper' linking your extremities to your brain corrected at any point in the past.
I also know someone with spina bifida who would benefit from this, if it were possible. Of course, reading about the physical condition and special circumstances of the research volunteer (having feeling below the injury) suggests that this may not be possible.
It's not as bad as you are thinking - considering the lifespan of petrol engines, a 10 year nearly full replacement cycle would solve the problem neatly. Nearly everything larger than a SUV in the US is diesel anyway, already. Besides, it offers new markets for engine block heaters for the parts of the US that freeze regularly.
Incidentally, that last one is the main reason you don't see more diesel passenger vehicles in the US, currently. The sight of Mercedes owners searching for power outlets to keep their vehicles reasonably mobile at work in colder climes is a deterrent to purchasing a diesel yourself.
Straw man argument.
No one really believes we won't run out. Some of us just don't care much. When commodities run out, they subsidize their replacements via outrageous cost. Besides, the momentum is unstoppable, anyway. Usually, we learn not to tilt at windmills.
What you're really calling for is to artificially decrease demand for oil, which isn't going to happen in a sane world. Any attempt to do so will simply create a gray or black market in oil to those who refuse to cooperate with the regimen. Those who produce will be all too willing to sell, and those who consume will be all too willing to continue, while paying lip service to the goal. It likely would even increase demand for oil until it is all gone. Then the solution summarized in the previous paragraph will happen in any event.
About the only way to subvert the whole process before oil runs out would be to create a renewable organic fuel with limited negatives vis a vis fossilized plant matter. Something that burns in current engines with limited modification. Arrange for it to be cheaper than extraction of said fossilized plant matter. That would work, but it's a tall order. However, if one wanted to 'save the earth' to the extent that CO2 is a danger, that seems to be the most promising path.
As for why organic - the economic dislocation of changing every ICE in the world over to something else would eliminate any cost advantage in the fuel in any reasonable time frame. That's why hydrogen always sounded like a nonstarter to me. It depended on too many immature or nonexistent technologies to prosper.
I'm suggesting that any certification or data point about people can (and probably will) act as a comfort zone whereby further effort is discouraged. It's human nature. This is why union employee service sucks and government employees don't give a shit. They believe they cannot be fired.
One could make a similar argument about college degrees, for that matter.
The M16A2/A4 and M4 carbine (shorter version), which covers all of the standard rifles issued to US armed forces since about 1982, do not have an automatic fire mode. They fire a maximum of a three round burst. By that definition, they aren't assault rifles.
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/clark.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulda_Regehr_Clark
Note the redundant use of the word "fraudulent".
Quack quack.
Past history, track record, yadda yadda. Microsoft has done little (read: nothing) to regain credibility after their past transgressions. They've crushed software innovation for the last 25 years in the interest of their bottom line, using both legal and illegal methods.
They don't get the benefit of the doubt for a reason.
Florian's just a paid shill. who cares what he has to say? Hell, the people he listed are all paid shills. If you can't determine who is paid to feed you company propaganda and who is not, the battle is lost with you anyway.
If someone had told me in 1994 that Microsoft was responsible for the destruction of productive new technologies to preserve their bottom line, I wouldn't have believed them and would have disbelieved everything and anything they said afterward. There was tons of data out there already documenting just this. I just hadn't seen it and didn't want to search it out. They were crushing IBM, then the heart and soul of closed, high cost computing. Why try to think badly of them?
Nowadays, the scales are off the eyes of those who are paying attention. You still have to care, though. Same with Apple and Google et al.
It's depressing that, aside from the moderators, no one who replied has seen "Life of Brian".
Florian and the lawyer pointing this out are Microsoft paid shills. They are attempting to sell WP7. This makes whatever point they were making pretty much irrelevant. If it was a big issue, the kernel devs would be making noise, not these whores.
For details about Florian, just Google...